Related: Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks saw this coming: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/why-irobots-founder-wont-go-within-10-feet-of-todays-walking-robots/
I don’t even trust the well established automated 6 axis robots in use all over the world in factories today. I’m sure as fuck not trusting one of those things standing next to me.
you ever seen a robot go from super slow teaching speed to 100% a few seconds later with a few hundred pounds attached to it? it’ll set your safety sensors straight real quick
It’s totally safe, bro. It will never be used for anything but home assistants, bro. Trust us, bro.
Would you go near an uncontrollable maniac swinging a ten-pound sledgehammer, or stand two meters below a larger-than life bronce sculpture of Neptun with a harpoon, weighting 150 kilograms, which is not fixed, unstable and could at any moment fall upon you?
No? Then you should not go near such a robot.
Isn‘t this why they‘re putting human workers into driving cages so they don‘t collide with working robots?
Probably hundreds of movies show all the ways making humanoid robots can go wrong. Why the hell does anyone think it’s still a good idea to make robots that are significantly stronger than humans?
Got nothing to do with being humanoid.
Bipedal predators are a rounding error, probably the most effective hunter/killer robot would be dog shaped and medium dog sized, with a back mounted turret.
Give it pack tactics, with radio comms…
It doesn’t need comms if the pack is functioning as a multi part individual the way bees or ants do.
Aka: radio comms, when talking about robots.
Why the hell does anyone think it’s still a good idea to make robots that are significantly stronger than humans?
So they can easily do tasks better than a human or that a human could not possibly do. Like moving furniture unaided.
I’m much more interested in a robot that can cook. That’d be something.
They already have stir fry robots. They’re not humanoid though, because they’re built specifically for stir fry.
If you consider the mentality of fascist dictators, the concept of an ever obedient non thinking workforce/army is very appealing. That’s why.
Could it end badly even for them? Sure, but heck, if they don’t make the human race ending robots, someone else will.
I give it 6 months until they forget their password or something and their entire empire collapses until they can get someone out from IT to fix it, but first they have to log a ticket or else no work is being done.
Only a matter of time now. And we don’t even have the laws of robotics to protect us.
Yeah it’s crazy. I grew up reading about how the “three laws of robotics” are still imperfect, contradictory and filled with loopholes.
But these sci-fi worlds at least tried, imperfect as they are. Turns out IRL no one gives a fuck.
A huge point of I, Robot is that there isn’t some exact instructions you can give robots that will have them always protect humanity. They have an inherent danger in their literalism
It’s the underlying crux of the entire series, and even Foundation too. The Zeroeth law requires a massive war to develop it and still doesn’t solve the problem.
Or laws at all at this point.
USAsian located.
cant allow regulations of robotics or ai, because peter thiel says regulations will speed up the coming of the anti-christ, bud
Can’t argue with that.
Greta Thunberg is already here though.
I have an AR-15 and armor piercing green-tips. Weird enough, I only have the green tips because they were the cheapest option at the time. At 100’ they drill press a perfect hole in 1/4" steel.
